[SCC_Active_Members] Agenda for 8/25/04 SCC

[Dave Redell]

I wrote:
>The $TUDENT compiler ran on the 6400, so none of the above
>description seems to apply.

Sorry for the moment of brain-fade here; I was confusing $TUDEN
with AID, which was also a UCB-written student-optimised FORTRAN
system that ran later on the 6400. I shouldn't have confused the
two, since I actually used $TUDENT briefly before the end of its
life.

So, resetting my clock back to the IBM days: by the time I arrived
(1964) the standard IBM 7xxx system at Berkeley was the 7094/7040
DCS, which was the only machine on which I ever used $TUDENT. I heard
tales of how Hoggatt had ordered the dual-core 7090 (and how it was 
supposedly planned to run a CTSS-class timesharing system?), but by
that time, the production system was a stock (single memory) 7094
controlled by DCMUP running on the 7040 front end.

By the way, Paul and I later worked for Hoggatt in the early
1970s. But that's another story.

>Ken Thompson (of UNIX fame) was also around at that time.

I remember that. When Ken moved over to the Genie project,
I inherited his spare-time project called SMALGOL-R, which
had originally been written by Klaus Wirth when he was at
Berkeley.

Anyway -- sorry for the momentary mental disconnect here.
I should have known that $TUDENT ran on the IBM system.
If it was on CDC, it would have been 7-8-9TUDENT... :-)

Dave